Paris was fabulous… It truly is the city of my heart – and we had an absolutely fabulous time! Of course the first place we went was to see the Eiffel tower. Friday night we drove through Paris – we went to the Musee d’Homme – which is closed for rennovation right now – so [...]
Wow – I can’t believe how long it’s been again since I’ve posted! I’ve got some really good stuff to share with you though… New photos, some really interesting places we’ve been (including being on-board the “Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier for a coctail party that was absolutely fabulous!
And we did some shopping in Toulon’s [...]
This year’s end-of-year concert for the benefit of the members, volunteers, professors and students at Le Relais Peiresc (the largest cultural center in Toulon), was fabulous. Music was provided by the Toulon Navy Jazz band, and the conductor was, himself an accomplished musician.
The band was very spiffy in their dress whites, and they put on [...]
So we took a drive up to Bormes Les Mimosa. Although it’s February, spring is already starting to bloom. And Bormes Les Mimosa is, to me, the best place to celebrate it!
The Mimosa trees are in full bloom and seeing them is like looking at flowering sunshine.
Bormes is a fun town to visit – partly [...]
Tonight we were invited to a cockatail party at a friend’s place. She lives high on Mount Faron (the mountain that is north of Toulon), so she’s got a fabulous view of the city and the Mediterranean was spread out like black velvet, with a few jewels gleaming in the light of the three quarter [...]
After the rugby game on Saturday, we were invited to a wine-tasting party at one of the places we like to go when we’re buying Christmas presents for someone special. (In other words, a little expensive). They had the Beaujolais Nouveau bottled just for them, and so we had wine and got to taste little [...]
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before – but I am on Twitter – and I posted about the Beaujolais Nouveau celebration which starts this Thursday and then did a twitter search, to find out if anyone else was talking about it- and to my delight, lots of people are!
So I’ve decided to create [...]
First of all, I’d like to thanks Frances of the fun and funky “France and the Unknown” blog for tagging me! (It’s my first tag and I actually had to go look on Frances’ blog to see what that meant!)
If you, like me, aren’t sure, it’s a way of spotlighting other blogs – and in [...]
Halloween in France is definitely different than in the states, Ireland and other places where it is celebrated with Gusto! Of course, in our house, we continue to mix and max holidays and celebrations, and Halloween is one that remains at the top of the list. And as such, we are a curiosity and getting [...]
Okay, I just read an article in the Connection that I’m not so happy about. It appears that there is a disease attacking our Chestnut trees here in France.
Fall is normally the time when the leaves on trees start turning brown – well, at least the grape vines do. (A lot of our trees here [...]
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